Record mode display

Here you can see an example of the live preview image on the LCD
just prior to taking a shot, note the composition bracket in the
center of the frame. Various settings information is displayed along
the top and down the right side of the display (in this case):

Half-pressing the shutter release causes the cameras
autofocus and metering systems to lock, a steady green dot indicates
a good AF lock and you can now see the exposure shown on the right
side of the display.

After fully depressing the shutter release a brief review
image is shown while the image is flushed to the Memory Stick.

Pressing the 4-way controller to the
left displays the last image taken as above. This display is instantly
interrupted by half-pressing the shutter release.

An example of movie capture mode,
here the time indicator shows available space for 11 minutes 18 seconds
at the current setting (see later in the review for more detail).

Example of Shutter Priority mode (before
half-pressing the shutter release). Note the blue jog-dial indicator
in the bottom right of the screen.

Example of Aperture Priority mode
(before half-pressing the shutter release). Note the blue jog-dial
indicator in the bottom right of the screen.

Manual Focus

Selecting manual focus (pressing the FOCUS button) switches control
of focus distance to the small jog-dial, roll the jog-dial to select
the focus distance which is displayed in metres.

Play display

Switching to play mode
immediately displays the last image taken. The S85 uses a "rough
thumbnail" initially while it loads the full resolution image
from the Memory Stick (in the example above we'd moved from a movie
to this image which is why the overlay was still showing movie information).

After a second or so a
higher resolution image is shown. Note that you don't have to wait
for this image to be able to scroll between images and that you can
use the jog-dial as well as the 4-way controller.

Pressing the DSPL/LCD (display)
button clears off the overlaid file information allowing you to view
the image cleanly.

Selecting DELETE from the
pop-up menu displays this Ok/Cancel confirmation box before the image
is deleted.